Peter Diamandis: Find Wealth in the Things You Love

8/18/2013 11:49PM

XPRIZE founder Peter Diamandis names a few of his mentors and explains his "superpower." "Find that thing in the world that you love so much that you would do it whether someone pays you or not," he says.

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... I ... there was a gentleman day but where ... early on we must be traversed the whole the Arthur C Clarke was extraordinary ... supporter of my work um ... the report said Jerry radio and ... a large number of individuals that ... at different stages ... I have supported my dad was a physician ... aam alternately ... for me ... what has been my strongest ... steal my superpower if you would in anything that I'm doing ... has been a minor heartfelt passion ... here is my energy source ... it's the thing that would keep me going when everyone else ... would give up ... if you've got the energy source and you can't iffy doing something for your parents to be doing something for ... your professor doing something for someone else ... can you believe in your Guinea get up and way before you succeed ... the number one thing it unfair to find that thing in the world ... that you love so much ... that you would do it with us when he's your not then go do that he could make a business out of anything ... another friend of mine Richard area ... these data was a style that auction on the shuttle astronaut he grew up in a ... town in Houston where everyone that was an astronaut ... I was always expected no you go to college than a Grassley get your PhD gear and whoever might be ... he barely graduated high school ... because he's playing video games in the Navy can that be a game designer ... and then he began building more more beating him supply were made uh hundred million dollars and bought a ticket to the space station became ... the first second generation astronaut ... by having designed the games and so ... you can make the wealth doing anything if you love that ... so that's my number one ... and two three four or five piece of advice for but ...